New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- Former Diplomat Veena Sikri on Saturday said that further progress on ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict would require pressure from US President Donald Trump.

Speaking to ANI, Sikri noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin has made it clear that Ukraine must not move towards NATO membership and that territories claimed by Russia will not be returned.

"It will need some pressure from President Trump to force these countries to agree because before this, we know that on both the major conditionalities that are there with President Putin, which is that to be no movement towards Ukraine joining NATO or any association with NATO, number one. And number two, that the territorial areas, the Russian-speaking areas of U...